Strange things have happened to my plugboard

[stodgeboy]

Strange things have happened to my plugboard for series description changes. I recently upgraded to the latest version but that was only to see if it fixed the issue which i have never seen before. Using the template below to change the name of a series of books on a kindle 3 ( think it's a 3 anyway, the keyboard model anyway).

It works for all books except a particular series although when i look on the kindle the actual file name has been altered but it does't read as such on the kindle screen.

{series:|| }{series_index:0>2s|[|] - }{title}

I wiped all of the books and resent them to the device and all other series are still correct but this particular one doesn't work. I have even re-created the series just in case it wasn't configured properly. Wasted hours on this and desperate to get it right before i go on holiday so that I read the books in the correct order (without writing it down elsewhere).

Thanks in advance hopefully

[Adoby]

It might help if you told us about what book it is. Name and series and other metadata, and what result you get from the plugboard. Then the problem might perhaps even be reproduced. Always a good thing to help figuring out problems. Perhaps even a copy of the opf-file.

[stodgeboy]

No problem. The books are the Horus Heresy novels from Black Library and I only have vol 15-27 in eBook as the others are paperback.

They are from different authors but that didn't seem to matter previously.

Where will I find the opt file?

Thanks

[Adoby]

The opf-file is stored together with the book in the calibre library.
The reason that it could be helpful is because you seem to be very reluctant to give the exact metadata for the book, and information about what you think was the exact problem with the result from the plugboard. It makes it very difficult to even figure out if there actually is a problem.

[stodgeboy]

Sorry, I wasn't being purposely reluctant to provide metadata. I just wasn't sure what exactly was required and inexperience with calibre resulted in a rather vague response. I've attached the opf file for one of the books in the series that is causing problems to see if this gives any clues.

As an experiment I added two new series of books to calibre, sync'd them with my kindle and found that the plugboard template worked perfectly so it would appear to be a problem with just the Horus Heresy series I mentioned (to clarify, the opf file is from this series).

Thanks for your assistance so far. Hopefully I can sort this and get a little more adventurous with my library management as a result of any lessons learnt.

Cheers

[kovidgoyal]

Your non working books are likely joint MOBI files, convert them to azw3 before sending them to your kindle.

[stodgeboy]

Converting to azw3 did the trick.

Thanks everyone for the advice.